Silk painting techniques tutorials

Painting on silk is a fun and simple project that anyone can undertake. You only need a few materials and a creative mind! There are a few different techniques for painting silk, including the Serti method and the alcohol and salt method....

For this project, I went for free-style silk painting. There’s another method where you use a resist called gutta to draw your design li... Simple tutorial for silk painting!

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Any of you that paint on silk will be familiar with the alcohol technique. For those of you that don't paint on silk you may be surprised to know that it doesn't mean having a wee dram before starting the project. Alcohol is used to displace the dye to form patterns by painting onto dry unfixed dyed silk. It will only work with dyes, not silk paints, as long as the silk dye has not been fixed. My sequence of pics show the process in stages. 1. After stretching the silk on the frame I painted…

It takes great effort for me to sit and be still. The stillness I refer to is inner quietness. Meditating is something that requires great effort on my part because I am constantly thinking. Sometimes when I mediate it feels like I am walking a crazed dog that is pulling me franticly by the leash. My unquiet mind would be that hyper dog. However, while in India studying Mahayana Buddhism I found myself reaching that stillness. It felt dizzying; like I was sitting in a desk chair and someone…